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JKBelieve Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

'Poor and the Wealthy taxed the same'?


'The poor and the wealthy taxed the same' this is not a grammatically correct

sentence is it? Shouldn't 'taxed' have 'being' in front of it? And 'taxed the same'? can

I say that?



Thank you very much
  

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This is not a sentence (except in the bizarre case of the compound subject as the taxing agency, instead of the government), and adding 'being' would not make it one. What we need is an 'are/were': 'The poor and the wealthy are taxed the same' .

— Mister Micawber

  • This is not a sentence (except in the bizarre case of the compound subject as the taxing agency, instead of the government), and adding 'being' would not make it one.
  • What we need is an 'are/were': 'The poor and the wealthy are taxed the same' .
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This is not a sentence (except in the bizarre case of the compound subject as the taxing agency, instead of the government), and adding 'being' would not make it one.

What we need is an 'are/were': 'The poor and the wealthy are taxed the same' .
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why wouldn't adding 'being' make it one? Do you mean it's still incomplete?
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Yes. 'The poor and the wealthy being taxed the same' is not a sentence; 'being taxed' is a nonfinite verb. You could complete it, again, with 'were/are': 'The poor and the wealthy were being taxed the same'.
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